secure2sign README DOCUMENT: Version 4.1.0.0     

15-day Trial Version

5th February 2008

IMPORTANT NOTE:

secure2sign is an application that uses the information in a digital certificate to stamp the identity of a person onto a document that they are involved in collaborating on, have created, etc.

 

Avoco Secure do not supply digital certificates as these are supplied by validated certificate authorities (CA). A suitable CA can be found online.

 

Once you have a digital certificate that identifies you, you will be able to use it with secure2sign to sign a Word document.

 

Introduction

secure2sign represents the state of the art in digital signing.

It enables you to digitally sign and timestamp Microsoft Office Word documents so that it can be shown that the document:

·         Has not been altered since it was signed. (Proof of content.

·         Existed in this form at the time it was time stamped. (Proof of existence.)

Unlike other digital signing tools, secure2sign:

·         Does not use ActiveX controls, macros or Visual Basic code. The ability to sign without introducing active content:

o    Eliminates the possibility of active content being maliciously exploited.

o    Prevents the problem of firewalls filtering out documents with active content.

o    Avoids conflicts with using documents with active content in secure environments.

o    Ensures compatibility with Microsoft Office 2007 default native file formats (.docx) that specifically exclude any active elements (ActiveX, scripts or macros).

·         Checks Microsoft Office documents for potentially malicious content before you sign, to ensure that you don't sign content that you are unaware of or that may display differently at a later date.

·         Uses patent applied for techniques to prevent spoofing of the windows that display signature details. This prevents malicious programs from altering the display of signatures e.g. displaying an invalid signature as valid.

·         Is resistant to the attacks that have been shown to affect other signing programs.

 

Version 4 New Feature

Version 4 onwards of secure2sign allows you to sign document sections, i.e. you can separate a form or document into different sections (using page breaks, see secure2sign Help for more information) and sign each section as a separate entity.

 

Please see our product tour document here which is available on our website

 

 

Specification

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows Vista

Windows XP Pro

Windows 2000

Supported Applications:

Microsoft Word 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003, 2007


For support of other applications please contact sales@avocosecure.com

For information on our signing API please contact sales@avocosecure.com


Requirements

Memory: 256 megabytes of RAM

Hard Disk: 1 megabytes of free space

CPU Support: Single CPU Systems

Processor: Pentium compatible - 133 MHz or higher

Installation

1.    Close Microsoft office Word and Outlook before installing/uninstalling

2.    Ensure that if you have received secure2sign in a zip file, that you extract the contents of the zip.

3.    You must be logged on with administrator privileges to install or remove secure2sign, but no special privileges are required to use it.

4.    Double click on the setup executable (s2sxxsetup.exe) to start the installation

5.    Follow the onscreen prompts to complete installation

6.    Re-open Microsoft Word – secure2sign is shown in the Word toolbar (or ribbon under the signing tab for Word 2007)

Uninstallation

1.    Close Microsoft office Word and Outlook before installing/uninstalling

2.    Open Add/Remove programs from Control Panel

3.    select secure2sign and click Remove.

4.    Alternatively, click Start, All Programs, Avoco Secure, secure2sign, Uninstall.

 

Upgrading to the full version

To upgrade secure2sign to the full version:

1.       close Microsoft Word and Outlook

2.       Uninstall the trial version using Add/remove programs

3.    Ensure that the license file s2slic.ini, is in the same folder as the install executable for the full version of secure2sign, before installing (If zipped extract both files into the same folder before installing)

4.    Follow the online prompts to install secure2sign

 

Using secure2sign

 

A product tour can be found here:

 

http://www.avocosecure.com/downloads/secure2sign_docs/s2s_product_tour.pdf  

 

Support

Before contacting support, please check out the FAQs listed at http://www.avocosecure.com/support

To contact support, please email support@avocosecure.com

Copyright notice

secure2sign is copyright (c) Avoco Secure Ltd
Copyright (c) 2006-2008, All Rights Reserved